Subject: Re: [Harp-L] you tube vids

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Hey Bob:
 
..... then you must not have ever attended one of the harmonica  
Conventions...because what you see in those videos is actually just a smaller  version of 
what happens in any one of the many seminars/shows I've attended at  SPAH and 
Buckeye.  That's how the Hotels are set up...terrible fluorescent  lighting in 
the ceiling...the people putting on the shows and seminars having to  work 
with what they're given...for the record I always end up wearing my shades  to 
these things <G>
 
 Actually...this particular seminar looked more "lively" than most  ...there 
were some heads bobbing, lol...though I don't disagree with the  "whitebread" 
aspect of it....that's just how the seminars play  out.
 
....who do you think makes up the bulk of the attendees at SPAH and the  
other conventions?  Jason & Chris did a great job by having a rocking  band behind 
the playing...so at least had some great driving  sound...but  it was billed 
as "Rockers in the Rockies" so geared for rock music...and they  were there to 
teach, not put on a show.  That's  the difference....
 
At Buckeye, 2007, the best effort I've seen so far to make more of a  
"nightclub" setting was done for the late-night Jazz "Cabaret" ... round  tables with 
tablecloths and candles, with the 4-piece jazz backup ensemble  on stage.  
For my personal tastes I would prefer the participants not  having to go up 
onstage to front the group...since that's far too  nerve-wracking and heavy for 
me...thinking it could be made more "intimate"  and night club'by...with 
judicious use of microphones.  But it didn't  take away from my enjoyment of the 
people who did play, though it was much too  intimidating for me to go up there.  
Still, it was a major improvement over  the glaring fluorescent lighting we're 
all so used to. 
 
I would have liked to see more of the participants "dancing" in their  seats 
at the Rockies Seminar, though..the way I'd have been doing were I in  
attendance ;) (your obligatory "wimmens"). 
 
...and they DID take it out to a Blues club the first night from what I  
understand....
 
Elizabeth
 
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:48:05 -0700
From: "Bob  Laughlin" <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] you tube  vids
To: "harp-l" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I don't get it. Where's the dim lights, the  smoke-filled room, the spilled
beers, the empty shot glasses, the old, paint  peelin' upright in the corner,
and the wimmens? Where's Tom Waits, growlin'  out pure poetry.

Just a buncha old harmonica geeks in tee-shirts and some  fancy effects.

I just don't get it.

Where'd that ole' nasty-ass  groove go?

Altogether too white for me. <(/;o>

BL

In  spite of all the above, listening to Jason Ricci flow makes it  all
worthwhile.

Get ridda those damn fluorescents. Jeez, it spoils the  atmosphere. Reminds
me of "night school".

Somebody hand me my  shades.

----- Original Message ----- 

> I just posted a couple  of you tube vids from jason ricci's rockin in the
rockies.
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyamOiRABq4
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn0A0-uQEQE
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